New English Translation
Job 11:3
3Will your idle talk reduce people to silence, and will no one rebuke you when you mock?
Job 11:3 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?
- New International Version (NIV)Will your idle talk reduce others to silence? Will no one rebuke you when you mock?
- English Standard Version (ESV)Should your babble silence men, and when you mock, shall no one shame you?
- New King James Version (NKJV)Should your empty talk make men hold their peace? And when you mock, should no one rebuke you?
Context of Job 11:3
1Then Zophar the Naamathite spoke up and said: 2“Should not this abundance of words be answered, or should this talkative man be vindicated? Will your idle talk reduce people to silence, and will no one rebuke you when you mock? 4For you have said, ‘My teaching is flawless, and I am pure in your sight.’ 5But if only God would speak, if only he would open his lips against you,
Read all of Job 11Job 11:3 word by word
בַּ֭דֶּיךָ מְתִ֣ים יַחֲרִ֑ישׁו וַ֝תִּלְעַ֗ג וְאֵ֣ין מַכְלִֽם׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 11:3
- Job 13:4But you, however, are inventors of lies; all of you are worthless physicians!
- Job 15:2“Does a wise man answer with blustery knowledge, or fill his belly with the east wind?
- Job 24:25“If this is not so, who can prove me a liar and reduce my words to nothing?”
- Job 12:4I am a laughingstock to my friends, I, who called on God and whom he answered – a righteous and blameless man is a laughingstock!
- Job 13:9Would it turn out well if he would examine you? Or as one deceives a man would you deceive him?
- Job 17:2Surely mockery is with me; my eyes must dwell on their hostility.
- Job 34:7What man is like Job, who drinks derision like water!
- Psalms 35:16When I tripped, they taunted me relentlessly, and tried to bite me.
- Jeremiah 15:17I did not spend my time in the company of other people, laughing and having a good time. I stayed to myself because I felt obligated to you and because I was filled with anger at what they had done.
- Jude 1:18For they said to you, “In the end time there will come scoffers, propelled by their own ungodly desires.”
- Psalms 83:16Cover their faces with shame, so they might seek you, O Lord.
- 2 Thessalonians 3:14But if anyone does not obey our message through this letter, take note of him and do not associate closely with him, so that he may be ashamed.
Commentaries on Job 11:3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 3Should thy lies make men hold their peace? - This is a very severe reproof, and not justified by the occasion. And when thou mockest - As thou despisest others, shall no man put thee to scorn? Zophar could never think that the solemn and awful manner in which Job spoke could be called bubbling, as some would translate the term לעג laag . He might consider Job's speech as sarcastic and severe, but he could not consider it as nonsense.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3Should thy lies - Margin, “devices.” Rosenmuller renders this, “should men bear thy boastings with silence?” Dr. Good, “before thee would man-kind keep silence?” Vulgate, “tibi soli tacebunt homines?” “Shall men be silent before thee alone? The Septuagint tenders the whole passage, “he who speaketh much should also hear in turn; else the fine speaker ( ̓́ eulalos ) thinketh himself just. - Blessed be the short-lived offspring of woman. Be not profuse of…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 2-3This stream of words: Those who are foolish and those who sin often talk too much, but Job was innocent (Proverbs 10:8, 14; Proverbs 10:19). Will you scoff without rebuke?: Zophar thought Job's comments were full of sin because he was making fun of God's justice (Job 10:2–7, 13–15).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 33. lies--rather, "vain boasting" (Is 16:6; Jr 48:30). The "men" is emphatic; men of sense; in antithesis to "vain boasting." mockest--upbraidest God by complaints, "shall no man make thee ashamed?"Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 11
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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